Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Vicki is our hostess for this challenge and here's what she has to say about her challenge:

Before you know it, Christmas will be upon us! How many of you have started your Christmas cards? I'm curious, do you make ALL of your Christmas cards, none of them or a bit of both?

This week I'm challenging the team to make a non traditional Christmas card. The main rule is

NO RED OR GREEN!

I can't wait to see all of the great ideas!

Pull out your Stampotique Stamps as this is a Stampotique only week!

Play along with this week's challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 12/13/11 here. Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

Here's group one's creations showing off their non-traditional Christmas colors:

Vicki is our hostess this week and she has proven to give us quite the challenge:

Before you know it, Christmas will be upon us! How many of you have started your Christmas cards? I'm curious, do you make ALL of your Christmas cards, none of them or a bit of both?

This week I'm challenging the team to make a non traditional Christmas card. The main rule is

NO RED OR GREEN!

I can't wait to see all of the great ideas!

Pull out your Stampotique Stamps as this is a Stampotique only week!

Play along with this week's challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 12/13/11 by using the InLinkz below. Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

The winner of the new Release Blog Hop is Vickywho wrote on Maria's Blog(please e-mail Carol@stampotique.com to claim your grab bag with subject Kira Blog Hop Winner)

I love how you've used those 2 quirky images, kind of vintage but with a bit of fun thrown in :)

Congratulations Vicky, you've just won a grab bag of the new release stamps!and now the design team showing off some non-traditional color cards.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Lisa here with this weeks Stampotique designers Challenge! I don't know about you, but I love to use sketches as a jumping point for my work, so for this weeks challenge, I'm providing you the following sketch.

Feel free to rotate it, change the focal image, but try to keep the sketch in tact. For this weeks challenge you can use ANY Stamp companies images, but if you have Stampotique images, we'd love for you to use them. Play along with this weeks sketch challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 11/22/11 by using the InLinkz here. Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Announcing new images and new artists are always exciting here at Stampotique Originals and so we are thrilled to announce our newest artist, Kira Nichols. Kira has designed some very unique monsters and kitties for her first line of stamps and our design team has had the opportunity to play with the stamps before they are released to the public.

Want a chance to win some of Kira's new images? Hop along with our designers as well as our special guest, leaving comments along the way, for your chance to win some of Kira's new images. We will randomly draw a winner from one of the blogs and announce the winner with our next challenge.

Make sure to leave comments along the way and a randomly chosen commenter will win some of these new stamps.

From here you will want to visit our special guest, our newest artist at Stampotique, Kira Nichols.

Below is a complete list in case you go off the beaten path and need some redirection.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Who knew that there were so many creative ideas for altered bottles? The creations last challenge were amazing, beautiful colors, different "poison" bottles and so many different styles. We are so glad you joined us and if you stepped out of your comfort zone for that one, thank you!

Maria's favorites from the last challenge are:

(please e-mail khowardga@gmail.com for your favorites badge)My apologies for having to add these in after the post went live, thanks for being patient!Anika

And our random winner of the $30 gift certificate for Stampotique stamps is:

(please e-mail carol@stampotique.com with SDC41 Winner as the subject)

#15 Shirley

Lisa here with this weeks Stampotique designers Challenge! I don't know about you, but I love to use sketches as a jumping point for my work, so for this weeks challenge, I'm providing you the following sketch.

Feel free to rotate it, change the focal image, but try to keep the sketch in tact. For this weeks challenge you can use ANY Stamp companies images, but if you have Stampotique images, we'd love for you to use them. Play along with this weeks sketch challenge for your chance to win a $30 Stampotique Gift Certificate, be sure to link in your entries by 5 p.m. EST on 11/22/11 by using the InLinkz below. Please no back linking to previous posts and only one entry per person.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Welcome to the 2nd week of our altered poison bottle challenge. We hope that you got some inspiration from group one last week and if you are still a little stumped, here is our first group sharing their creations.

"I have a new fun and creative challenge for you all this week. Are you ready for Halloween? Well, guess what? My challenge for you today is an: Altered poison bottle. I have a passion for sweet/spooky bottles and I would love to see your creations using Stampotique stamps.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Welcome Connie Helen Baever to Stampotique this month as our guest designer. Here's a little more on Connie:

I am what I call hopeless creative in a crazy way...sometimes less, sometimes more, but the most important thing is that it's all me! A Norwegian girl who has fallen in love with Art Journaling, Cardmaking and Scrapbooking. Working as a Graphic Designer and Marketing responsible for Norway's biggest craftstore, where I also teach classes in both art journaling and cardmaking. I like everything that are messy, colorful and different, and I have had an eye for Daniel Torrente's & Jill Panney's stamps since I first saw them some years back!